A Measure on the SEO Perspectives of LinkedIn for Website Promotion
Thursday, September 17, 2009 5:00->
There are networking sites for not only social butterflies but also professionals. LinkedIn, Xing, Spoke, Silicon India and Brijj.com are the most popular professional networking sites to mention of all. The chief end of these sites is to help you locate business partners, investors, employers and job seekers. With a profile in any or all of these sites, you can boost your professional identity online. The use of LinkedIn for search engine optimization is the latest buzz in the field of professional networking.
Like social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, LinkedIn helps you promote your business website or blog through SEO. Your LinkedIn account if properly optimized can act as a tool for website promotion. After much googling on how to customize LinkedIn profiles in order to improve the search engine ranking of websites, I have turned up with the following –
Link your LinkedIn profile to your website through anchor text. It is of great account to drive traffic from your profile to the website. Convert the keywords that relate to your website into anchor text. Major search engines rank websites after scrutinizing anchor text.
Keywords are the key to optimizing your profile in LinkedIn. Keyword-based optimization of the profile is sure to generate traffic for your website. Focus on the use of relevant and potential keywords in several sections of your profile like headline, summary, personal interests and job description.
Networking is the key to existence and expansion in the age of the internet. The more connections mean the more visibility. Increase the number of your connections in the LinkedIn profile to increase the visibility of your website or blog in search engines.
LinkedIn allows its members to customize the URL of their profiles in their own way. From SEO perspective, it is a great opportunity to make use of your profile as a platform for website promotion. Customize the URL of your LinkedIn profile after the name of your website or company. More visits to your profile mean more clicks to your website.
Make haste to sign up with LinkedIn and have a profile there. Optimize it in search engine friendly ways to promote your business website or blog.


